THE NEW YORKER on me for dough just because I happen to have taken your wife away from you when you weren't man enough to hold her, if that's what you have in mind, you better forget it,' I said, 'because when Betty gave you the air and came and lived with me, did I bother to col- lect the thirty-seven bucks you owed me?' I said. I said, 'Now you're back in town, I think what I'll do is get a judgment out against you for that thirty-seven bucks. I can use thirty- seven bucks, and as for lending you any more-huh,' I said." "What did he say to that? W as he sore when you said it about how I gave him up for you? I bet that burned him up." "Well, I suppose it did, but he couldn't let on, because he was trying to make a touch. Anyway, I knew all the time he didn't have any dough, and that about getting a judgment out against him, how could I? I have nothing to prove he owes me a nickel. But of course he's too stupid to figure that out. So he said all he had was a few clothes and his fiddle. If that's the same fiddle he used to have, I told him, why, Bob Motherwell would be willing to give him a hundred-dollar note for it. I said, 'Go sell the fiddle to Bob and pay me what you owe me. But if you don't get it up, cash on the line, inside of twenty-four hours, I'll get a judgment and take the fiddle away and sell it myself.' Well, did he crawfish on that! Sure, he'd positively have the money for me. Where could he get in touch with Bob? Where was I staying? So forth and so on." . "Then w hat " "Then I walked away. But I guess that's the last I'll hear of Mr. Long, the maestro. Either he'll sell Bob the fiddle and beat it out of town, or else beat it without selling the fiddle and try to get a job with some band on the road. And you know what chance of getting a job on the road anybody has. But I got rid of him." "He's getting what he deserves. But imagine all the dough he used to have, and now he hasn't even the price of a meal, most likely. He used to have a La Salle automobile, and a trunkful of clothes to wear and all the money a person would need, and now the poor dope-starving for lack of food." "What the hell? Who wants to eat in this weather? " "Who wants to eat? Maybe you don't," she said, "but you ought to see the justice I could do to some more of that ice cream. But not that burnt almond." -JOHN O'HARA "'-'<- 11 '''''''' .:. .:."ÿ:. ::": ., : ::: : . lI B I - eleve 45 lu,i!.Jì . ....;.. . . :::::. I will have another i '** m l " a bottle-I feel cooler already III ".' ....:. .:...:........ w.% ::<>i:: ............ :'."J..O:-O- ::::::::=x ' :; Ji; ,' . ............. ::..,;.":" ....' j .:.>'$,. :"') r $: r.. ' ." . ':'.' ":', <. .;,:.:..,./ ":::::=- t . tW =;:;..::#=:-:'.'$ /!-. .; :.: : , (CANADA DRY , II <./ :N the bottled beer that tastes ::r:: I " 3 BOTTLES FOR 251 (plus deposit) .:x: . i :it f 'X'. :..::..: :!,t :::: ::::: ".:...-:0 ' "::::'. J't-.', :: Also on DRAUGHT at the better bars CANADA DRY GINGER ALE, IHC , HEW YORK . 11r. : ;:;::;:;:;f ' '7;:: . : ::?